June Brown Biography
June Brown, MBE is an Associate in Nursing English thespian, celebrated for her role as Dot Cotton within the BBC serial EastEnders from 1985 forwards. In 2005, she won Best Actress at the Inside Soap Awards, and in the same year, June Brown (Muriel) also received the Lifetime Achievement award at the British Soap Awards.
June BrownIn 2009, she was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress but lost out to Anna Maxwell Martin. She is only the second performer to receive a BAFTA nomination for their work in a soap opera, the first was Jean She was awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2008, Birthday Honours for services to Drama and Charity. Alexander.
June Brown Age
She was born on 16th February 1927, in Needham Market in the United Kingdom. On 31 January 2008, Brown became the first and, as of 2019, the only actress to carry an entire episode single-handed, with a monologue looking back over her life, dictated to a container machine for her husband Jim to concentrate to in hospital following a stroke.
June Brown Education
Brown was educated at St John’s Church of England school, in Ipswich, and then won a scholarship to Ipswich High School where she passed the school certificate examinations. During the Second war, she was exhausted to Pontyates, a village in Wales. During the later years of the war, she served in the Wrens (Royal Navy) and was classically trained at The Old Vic Theatre School in Lambeth
June Brown family
Brown was born in Needham Market, Suffolk in 1927, the daughter of Louisa Ann who was also known as née Butler and Henry William Melton Brown. She was one of five children, although her baby brother died of pneumonia in 1932, aged 15 days, and her elder sister, Marise, died in 1934, aged eight, from a meningitis-like illness. Other than English, she has Irish, Scottish, Italian, and Sephardic human descent from the port, Algeria. On her maternal grandmother’s side, Brown is descended from the Jewish bare-knuckle boxer Isaac Bitton.
At 23, Brown met and married actor John Garley; he suffered from depression and took his own life in 1957. In 1958, she married Robert Arnold, a regular in the BBC television program Dixon of Dock Green. Brown and Arnold had six kids in seven years, one amongst whom died in infancy. The couple was together for forty-five years until he died in 2003 of Lewy body dementia. Since then she has lived alone in their house in Surrey. She is a supporter of the Conservative Party, and told an interviewer for The Guardian: “I wouldn’t vote Labour, dear if you paid me. I vote Conservative.”
June Brown Career
Brown has had an extended tv career, with little roles in installation Street as Mrs. Parsons (1970–71); the Play for Today, Edna, the Inebriate Woman as Clara (1971); the Doctor Who story “The Time Warrior” as Lady Eleanor (1973/74); the medical soap Angels; the history-of-Britain Churchill’s People; long-running comedy-drama Minder; the police drama soap The Bill; and cult sci-fi series Survivors. She had a bigger part as Mrs. Leyton within the costume drama The Lady of Duke Street (1976) and compete Mrs. Mann in Oliver Twist(1985).
She starred in a 1968 TV film called Gentle To Nora and had her first acting role in 1952 in the film It Started In Paradise; she played an uncredited announcer. In 2006, Brown appeared as auntie Spiker at the Children’s Party At The Palace, associate all-star event to celebrate the Queen’s eightieth birthday. In 2010, Brown took part in the annual Christmas special for Strictly Come Dancing. Brown aforementioned “I’m frightened and apprehensive regarding what I’ve let myself sure, I have to be barmy and I am undecided what is communicate me… I simply hope I can remember the steps to the routines. I’m looking forward to working with the professional dancers and the other contestants. Her dancing partner was Vincent Simone, with whom she danced the tango. She was the oldest contestant in the show so far.
In July 2012, Brown hosted a documentary for the BBC called Respect Your Elders, which looked at society’s treatment and attitudes towards the elderly. She takes part in interviews and chats shows, including The Graham Norton Show in 2013.
June Brown Theatre Roles
Brown has also been active in British theatre. In 1959, she vies the role of Chica in Alun Owen’s The Rough and prepared ton once it received its stage debut on 1st June 1959 in an exceeding production by the fifty-nine Theatre Company at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, also as within the tv adaptation that was broadcast that Sept.
She directed hard cash by Malcolm wants in London, and Double D in London and Edinburgh. She played Mrs. Danvers in the production of Rebecca. Other plays include An Inspector Calls, The Lion in Winter, A View from the Bridge, and numerous pantomimes including The Witches, in which her sister also performed. During her early career, she played the roles of Hedda Gabler and Lady Macbeth. In 2009, Brown vie Jessie within the West End production of Calendar ladies at the Noel Coward Theatre. Also in the play were former EastEndersvvvvvvv stars Anita Dobson (Angie Watts), Jack Ryder (Jamie Mitchell) and Jill Halfpenny (Kate Mitchell).